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Max P. Jansen; Birgit Becker; Zerrin Salikutluk; Susanne Garritzmann; Sigrid Roßteutscher – Cogent Education, 2024
Students from a high socioeconomic background show relatively homogeneous, high levels of educational attainment, whereas students with a low socioeconomic origin display a large variability in their educational careers. In this paper, we examine whether the varying degrees of students' academic self-efficacy can contribute to an explanation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Academic Aspiration, Socioeconomic Background
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Häuberer, Julia; Brändle, Tobias – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
We focus on transition from school or employment to university and analyze how social network characteristics and the quantity of social capital (SC) influence the assessment of help in selecting a program of study. We analyze data of undergraduate students at a German university and find that SC has an amount and a context effect. First, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Social Capital, Social Networks
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Biggart, Andy; Järvinen, Tero; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo – European Education, 2015
In this article institutional and structural factors relating to access to education are assessed. First, the macro frameworks of institutional regulation that exert influence on the educational trajectories of young Europeans are demonstrated. Based on different aspects of these frameworks and drawing from extant research, the article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Practices, Classification